“Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of the Maroons” (1796)

“Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of the Maroons” (1796)

Topic 2.15

“Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of the Maroons” (1796)

A shirtless and shoeless Black man wearing white pants and a sword along his right leg while brandishing a rifle with both hands and identified as "Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of the Maroons."


Source: An engraving of “Leonard Parkinson, a Captain of the Maroons, taken from the Life” by Abraham Raimbach in Maroon Negroes: Published by Order of the Assembly. To Which Is Prefixed, an Introductory Account, Containing, Observations on the Disposition, Character, Manners, and Habits of Life, of the Maroons, and a Detail of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the Late War Between Those People and the White Inhabitants, London, 1796 (New York Public Library Digital Collections)